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The Newspaper of the Future
Well, from Arthur C. Clarke’s future in 2001: A Space Odyssey – an astronaut reads the news [HT: Liz Donovan]: …he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him. …One by one he would conjure up the world’s major electronic papers; he knew the codes…
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Do communication experts exist?
There is an interesting US Government report out in draft on reporting scientific uncertainty. Buried inside is this nugget (my italics): The importance of continued and iterative empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of communication is stressed. One key finding in this literature is that there is no such thing as an expert in communication –…
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BBC News: the colour red
Peter Horrocks at the BBC puts commenters firmly in their place. Quantitative research – not the self-selecting (qualitative?) input of 150+ commenters – will be what guides any tweaks to the BBC News re-brand. Despite the knockdown, BBC commenters keep coming back for more. And some of them are really quite funny in a dry…
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Retired generals – not the neutral fence-sitters we all thought…
The day’s big media story belongs to David Barstow and his epic NYT story, Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand, on the Bush administration’s hearts and minds campaign. Yes, retired generals on army pensions and with a lifetime of military service turn out not to have been the neutral thumb-suckers we all assumed they’d been…